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Welcome to episode 5 of "Sarah, The Duchess Of York, My Story" book review series produced by The Vintage Read Show.
In this fifth episode reviewing Sarah, My Story we are introduced to Sarah at 18! Embarking on her first job, first car and first flat-sharing arrangement. "Dads" has got married again to a "wise and gentle" woman and Sarah rings her "5 times a day" for advice. We are also introduced to Paddy McNally for the first time. A year of adventure and travel for Sarah, all leading up to her first meeting with Andrew in chapters to come.
I will be reviewing Sarah Ferguson's book in detail every Monday evening at 9.45pm AEST time
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Shauna x
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[@magsstewart5488]

I have found, through the years, that people who label themselves as “great fun,” rarely are. They’re exhausting.

[@thevintageread]

Yes I’m imagining all the poor people at the Cocktail Party laughing POLITELY …😂

[@ValeriaPugliesiWashington]

Now that's an image hard to delete.... 😬

[@barbraluce5706]

Oh.YES! Acknowledging herself as "great fun" reads to me as "needy and exhausting"

[@l.h.2543]

It is exhausting watching her out in public…buzzing around, waving maniacally, hyper emotive in an outfit 2 sizes too small.

[@janetclaireSays]

I couldn't agree more!

[@missyandsyd123]

I have to commend you Shauna, you have the ability to make even a train timetable sound entertaining. Audible should definitely hire you.

[@vericarauza5830]

I agree

[@Imagineitisraining]

I hope not because she might not have time for us. I really like her readings since I might never know about these things.

[@jillruben8924]

What a brilliant idea!

[@alidabotes6264]

I wholeheartedly agree!

[@LS-mp7co]

Yes! She is such a gift to listen to! I have grown to love this channel!

[@pamelacox540]

Sarah’s book is definitely a book for the American market as Brits know exactly what kind of privileged entitled person Sarah was/ is.

[@dianehoag682]

Not all we USA citizens are blind to what kind of person Sarah was/is, trust me. ;-)

[@user-sl6dt1fh6e]

Yes you keep shipping them over to us! 😂

[@EEmB]

I notice how much of the recent past are "rewritten" now when either younger people want around during the Diana and Fergie era, or places like US that only got a little polished piece here and there, so that many there doesn't really have an understanding of what really happened or how it really was. (and is). It's scary how easy it is to rewrite history.

[@susanyoung6331]

Sarah, inspite of her privileged life, was still the collateral damage in a broken family - just as Diana was. They both brought so much emotional baggage with them when they married into the Royal family. Inspite of all the talk of dysfunction within the Royal Family, I actually think they were an oasis of stability. Unfortunately, those who come from troubled backgrounds often don't know how to cope with a "normal" life, having only existed in turmoil.

[@lizroberts1569]

Especially when you’ve been given everything, jobs, ponies etc Entitled and if you’ve ever met any a boorish pain in the butt, no likeable and often very rude.

[@eshiestrik2756]

That's a good point

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

Sarah had a close relationship with her father, sister, mother, and step mother. Unfortunately Diana had little unconditional love.

[@dianeshelton9592]

@@MarisaPaola-um5ybto the point of did she really lack love?

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

@@dianeshelton9592 I believe so..Diana kept choosing men who were unavailable or weak (Hewitt), and tried to win them over..same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome. Neglected or even abused, not saying Diana was the last one...do this, it's very common and in laymen's terms.. ie: 'daddy issues'. just an opinion from someone who has been there myself. Just a point of view, like everyone else here.

[@RhondaSweet]

Sarah sounds like a hyperactive squirrel on a caffeine binge. She must have been utterly exhausting to be around 😖. It’s a joy listening to your play back Shauna … makes me appreciate the calmness of my life! Awesome work 👏!

[@valerieblouch5409]

A hyperactive squirrel on caffeine!! Omg!😂😂😂

[@tricianilsson6870]

Thank you for the laugh! Aptly described. ❤❤❤

[@louise7552]

Love it ❤❤😂😂😂. I'll never look at a squirrel on TV again without thinking of this.😂😂. Louise Australia 🇦🇺.

[@flyonthewall8122]

I immediately thought of Scrat. The squirrel in Ice Age.😊

[@LynxSouth]

@@flyonthewall8122 I adore Scrat! My favorite parts of those movies. But he 'lived' in desperate times, so had reason to be frantic (in addition to being a squirrel).

[@kathrynwandmacher3429]

Sarah was, is and always will be me, me,and me. Doesn't matter to her who suffers

[@DCND06]

We can’t help the context we’re born into. We are all susceptible to bad decisions- some more than others whether we’re born to privilege or not. God Bless.

[@purpurina5663]

Again with the "I just wanted to be loved..." We all do, in fact., All day, every day. But it's getting old. ETA: I missed the "read the comments" part! I really like it 😬

[@kathrynwandmacher3429]

I love everything you do. The book reviews are wonderful. My favorites are the snarky snippets. No one can snippet someone better than you and have one laughing out loud. What a gem you are to your family and your followers ❤❤😂😂

[@tzok09]

Snarky Snippets are my favorite. As I often think snarky. 😊

[@alidabotes6264]

I love your contributions Shauna especially the sparky snippets. Sip!

[@jeannelipham2583]

The phrase, "people pleaser" has always bothered me. The reason one is a "people pleaser" is not really because one wants to please others, it is because one wants attention, one wants love, one wants to be admired. It isn't about pleasing others, it is about pleasing oneself.

[@tzok09]

It's attention seeking or trying to fulfill a lack within ourselves. It Is also a reaction to abuse. In my case It was abuse. I had to do everything my mother wanted, exactly right, always. That is how I became a people pleaser. When I got older I realized that and learned my own worth, boundaries, and how to say no.

[@nancyjay790]

​@@tzok09 Hope you have a much improved life now. All the best!

[@tzok09]

@@nancyjay790 I do, thank you. I worked hard to change negative learned behaviors.

[@LynxSouth]

@@tzok09 Yep, sometimes it's just about survival.

[@kc7280]

I interpret ‘people pleaser’ as being a doormat, have poor boundaries and so on

[@greencloud2225]

I grew up in UK, but the contrast between her life and my ordinary one are huge! I don't think Sarah realised then ( or even now) how incredibly privileged her life was. To my eyes it reads like something out of a Jilly Cooper novel. I loved the books but always thought the characters were a bit far fetched. Listening to your reviews of Diana and now Sarah's early lives, I realise that Jilly Cooper was actually spot on! Love from NZ

[@Polopony]

Yes. It was the world Jilly Cooper herself came from. She had it down to a tee.

[@valerieblouch5409]

It puzzles me how it's possible to feel empathy and frustration all at the same time!😂 I bought the book and am trying to keep up! I really enjoy the book chats!! 🎉📖📚📖🎉

[@thevintageread]

I know what you mean! I swing between the two all the time with this one. 😂

[@maggierayner9408]

Actions speak louder than words.

[@chrish2277]

I've always thought of Sarah as either a Labrador or a Red Setter, crashing through life.

[@susanyoung6331]

😅 yes, I think you nailed it! Chaotic but loveable!

[@pamelashannon6104]

As having had both a black lab and then a red setter, I think they had alot more sense and were a lot more lovable. None of the drama, and the fun wasn’t manic, it was just fun.

[@flyonthewall8122]

I think more of a Basset Hound. They're unbelievably sweet, but clumsy as all get out.

[@elainepaterson5310]

Definitely the Red Setter!

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

Golden retriever in public/doberman behind closed doors... i remember she was sent to a domestic abuse centre once, and she asked someone why they didn't put their children into child care ..um, because of lack of money.

[@avissmith8384]

Oh dear this lass compelled to please and a utter pest at the same time😂❤

[@ginnyrisner4083]

Sarah is, what we say in America, a high-maintenance friend. Avoid at all cost! 😂

[@tzok09]

High maintenance friends need friends as well. I've had One for almost 45 years and She has the biggest, giving heart .

[@jeannelipham2583]

You are the best! I am so impressed with your ability to keep my attention. My husband often interrupts, I use headphones, and, after several interruptions, I usually give up on other KZbinrs, and decide I will watch them after he is in bed, but with you, I just keep rewinding and listening again.

[@felicityrostron9406]

I must admit I felt empathy for the young Sarah as being abandoned by her mother would have caused beep mental and emotional scares. That being said her incessant need for approval from her stepmother bordered on stalking, which if Susan was truly sympathetic should have been referred to a psychiatrist and maybe Sarah could have led a completely different life.

[@isabelwright8910]

I can't make up my mind if I like Sarah I remember her doing a TV series years ago teaching parents how to feed their kids lol

[@alidabotes6264]

Not a fan.

[@june6119]

I have always wondered what PA saw in Sarah.

[@lizroberts1569]

Part of the same horsey country set, he should have stuck with Koo Stark.

[@alidabotes6264]

He was hardly around.

[@itsmesam1967]

I think we all know someone like Sarah and how she was with her new step-mom Susan, lol. The number of times I thanked the phone Gods that video phone had yet to be invented as I would eye roll my way through listening to the same story of woe from the same person. I will add a disclaimer here... I was *very* sympathetic the first dozen or so times lol. Was it bananas?

[@mweya3]

10:44 . 🤣 This reminds me so much of an Aunt during childhood years, 1960's SE London. She managed to make a joke of her poverty as a single mum with eternal parking fines and started to use them as art decor wall paper. Which she promptly showed the Bailiff when he came knocking on the door to admonish her.😀 It became a party piece story how the Bailiff was 'overcome' by her 'femme fatale' and 'gave her 'til next time' each time. He appeared to secretly enjoy their 'meetings' while he watched more and more parking fines fill the walls.🤣

[@alidabotes6264]

😅😅😅

[@corneliabayley723]

Love your book reviews, commentaries and analyses. So much fun to share with you.

[@thevintageread]

That’s lovely! Thanks for being here. 😊💗

[@Imagineitisraining]

This books is a lot of fun. She reminds me of the younger me. Being bold and enjoying her life to her determint. 😅. Bring reckless with money but working hard. It never occurred to me to travel. I wasn't clever enough to find a way. I think looking back a lot of women her age can identify with her on several level. The book seems honest and that is very appealing.

[@timmythecat7478]

I enjoy and look forward to your posts every day !!!! I really like this Sarah Ferguson book and that Kitty Kelly book as well!!!!!! These are wonderful and relaxing and entertaining videos. You are better than books on tape !!!!!! ☺☺☺☺👏👏👏👏

[@thevintageread]

Oh thank you!

[@julledalle]

Hear! Hear!🎉

[@barbarabradshaw845]

Poor Susan! 5 times a day - then laundry on the weekend!

[@whatsinaname3561]

Sarah never said she took her laundry home for Susan to do. Why jump to conclusions. I took my washing home at weekends when I lived by myself eith no washing machine and did it myself. My mum would have been happy to do it but I did not let her. I find people are so down on Sarah. It's not really fair as we do not know her at all.

[@thevintageread]

I know! Every stepmother’s nightmare 😂

[@valerieblouch5409]

She called her stepmom 5 times a day!?! 😂 My phone would have been off the hook and she'd have had to pedal that crazy somewhere else!!😂

[@nancyjay790]

Even if the stepmother didn't have to deal with Sarah's laundry herself, it's kind of disheartening when your kid comes in, "Hi, I'm home!" and then plonks several loads of laundry and just looks at you. Also, if Sarah was going to deal with the laundry herself at home, I might imagine saying, "Shame I would lose some of each of those visits dealing with my clothes!" And even if "the staff" dealt with the laundry, it still couldn't be great with Sarah just hauling all that laundry home.

[@lizroberts1569]

I’m sure the Ferguson had help, and did very few domestic chores themselves.

[@samanthawatmough6119]

I laughed when she took her dirty laundry home with her, remember when she went to Highgrove and Wendy Berry said her knickers were very grey, even though she would be sleeping with randy Andy

[@Space_cadet0007]

😂😂

[@kittyG-kq5ib]

In Sarah I see a young girl, who lived through a broken marriage of her parents, who felt abandoned like so many children have. Her mother dashing off abroad with her new husband again something that has happened to many children, leaving them with a feeling of abandonment. As she grew up she wanted to be loved and tried to people please, act the fool to be liked, bought gifts she couldn’t afford, because again she wanted to be loved and liked, a trait many people have. In this book I see Sarah still trying to be accepted and liked. She in places sounds and acts like many children out there with ADHD and part of that diagnosis is playing the full for attention, being chaotic, being a people pleaser to be liked, to name a few. Sarah has always been slightly eccentric and when I said the above to my son, he replied mum who decided you are normal, or I am normal or anyone is normal, just because Sarah is different doesn’t make her a bad person and he is correct. One thing I do see is she loves her daughters, they have grown up “normal” whatever normal is, Sarah and Andrew did ok there with those girls who seem not to be affected on the surface by their mum or dad’s oddities, those girls have not brought heartbreak and embarrassment to their parents, or indeed the Royal family so for that we have to give some credit 🇬🇧

[@alidabotes6264]

Sorry, she has allowed Eugenie (who takes after Andrew) to behave badly & also be a snitch. Bad parenting but she tends to sway where the goodies look more enticing so one can hardly blame the girls. Cavorting on Weinstein & Epstein's yachts & at Soho House is not a good look!

[@dianeshelton9592]

I have to say the not paying parking fines and indeed getting them is really selfish antisocial behaviour. Excusing them as she was really busy and had no time to check the meters is really selfish. Is she really claiming that no one else was busy, that other people really ought to be responsible for her parking fines , not her because she needed to buy extravagant bouquets? I was living in London at that time, with a car for my job, I was on far, far, less salary than her and spent too much time driving about trying to get a parking place. Really annoyed by her priorities there and I find them very selfish.

[@barbraluce5706]

Your reading of this book is so enjoyable.

[@thevintageread]

I'm so glad!

[@RelaxedRevitalized]

You’re so good at this reading these excerpts you make me laugh over and over again you’re a little interpretations are amazing and wonderful and enjoyable and I laugh and I laugh and I laugh. Thank you very much Shawna. A American in the central valley of California, USA. I want to identify I’m in the central valley of California not down, where those people live in Montecito lol

[@lizroberts1569]

Her Mum was a debutante from aristocratic stock, divorced Major Ron for the much more interesting Hector Barrantes. You’d have thought after Diana’s death she’d have worn a seatbelt but no, she died in an awful car accident in Argentina.

[@BettyBoop111]

I'm not sure the seat belt verdict was widely publicised early on. From what I remember everyone was blaming the RF.(Re Diana).

[@yachoobful]

@@BettyBoop111I remember Diana dying really well, initially everyone blamed the paparazzi then the British press did what they do best and deflected the blame to the royal family. I always thought it was despicable how they demanded the queen go to London and console the hysterical masses.

[@Polopony]

@@yachoobful That whole period between the death and the funeral was just so weird, wasn't it? People completely lost their minds. I felt like I was in some sort of movie where everyone's bodies had been taken over by aliens.

[@yachoobful]

@@Polopony exactly, I remember looking around myself wondering how on earth everyone had lost their minds so easily . You can’t really explain how crazy it was to anyone who wasn’t around at the time . Never saw anything like it before or since!

[@janscott7565]

I can see how Sarah's 'neediness' made her vulnerable to people on the make. She desperately wanted to be liked and users (like a certain other duchess) will hone in on her like a bullet at a target. Couple that with a sense of entitlement that must come with that much privilege and you have a recipe for potential problems and scandal. I don't think she has bad character so much as carelessness.

[@alidabotes6264]

Split personality.

[@anj6787]

As an American, I’m a little suspicious of her tale of flitting across the United States funded solely by scrubbing toilets and some waitressing at a youth hostel.

[@flyonthewall8122]

6am-10pm plus tips might bring in quite a lot actually & the economy was very good at that time.

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

Scrubbing toilets? I missed that! 😂 she's such a hard worker...in her dreams

[@jessl1177]

Well she said she was in Squaw Valley which is up around Tahoe CA. Its not unusual (especially in the 80's) for seasonal work to be plentiful. Tahoe gets tons of visitors and many have money. So it would be possible for her to get the job and make some good money in the meantime.

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

@@jessl1177 I believe foreigners need a green card to work in the U.S...SF was infamous for her multiple holidays in Switzerland and the French Riviera, I don't recall any mention of a job before she married..bs

[@jessl1177]

@@MarisaPaola-um5yb Only if they wish to work legally. California has a long long history of illegal workers, native and foreign. I was even one at a time lol. Working under the table for cash also usually means you'll be doing the not so nice jobs as she claimed. Idk if I believe she would necessarily, but its completely possible she could have.

[@freemantle252]

When I was in my late teens I loved Jilly Cooper romance novels (before Riders when they got a bit more smutty 😳). Sarah's life sounds like something straight out of one of those earlier novels.

[@Polopony]

Yes, totally! I remember the ones with posh girls' names for titles - Bella, Octavia, Harriet, etc. The heroines were all exactly like Fergie - messy, scatty, goofy, hapless, accident prone, constantly agonising about their weight and looks, and being constantly upstaged by glamorous bitchy usually older women at every turn, but always ultimately being recognised by the hero for the angelic heart-of-gold darlings they really were, nonetheless.

[@realmms]

Sarah is the kind of rich that likes to pretend to be an every day regular person. While it can seem endearing it is actually kind of patronizing and gross.

[@fibanocci314]

I find many of them seem to actually think they ARE normal, every day people. They're entirely unaware of their own privilege. The ones most aware of it tends to actually be more normal.

[@3_times_mum520]

How do you know...??? it actually makes me sad, to hear a child/ young person, being treated like this... rich or poor.. doesn't matter!!!think about it ... I never met Sarah.. but to me, she sounds like a young girl in desperate need of somebody to love her, just because she was her.. she didn't have that..!!! She sounds like a young girl/ woman.. desperately trying to make sure, that people didn't leave her.. I think it is a personality trait , that was developed because of, people she loved, growing up, as a child, kept on abandoning her ... No one put her need before their own... No one!!!! Not her mother, and not her father.. and she, as most children do.. would have done anything .. just anything to get Love and attention from their parents... She never did!!! The only one taking time to listen and care for her, was her stepmom... .. and what does her father do.. tells her off !! and she is annoying... I think he was jealous, of Sarah getting some of his wife's attention...

[@GM-yn9nc]

Lady Shauna, You are absolutely adorable no matter which book you select to review. Love your channel and your sparkling personality, always just right. You are a Cole Porter song come to life! How did you get so magical?

[@julledalle]

Hear! Hear!

[@Roasting_Chicken]

I find her life very uninspiring and uninteresting, very vulgar indeed. After the Netflix film yesterday I don’t want to hear anything more about this part of the Royal family. For me she is a character like Lydia in a Jane Austen book.

[@purpurina5663]

Nailed it

[@sharonozvenom]

Oh yes , she is definitely an irritating Lydia !

[@alkasella2]

Only Lydia was 15 at the beginning of the novel, Sarah doesn't get that excuse.

[@krisy-in-italy]

I hate to sound “needy” but I need more chapters! I hate when your commentary comes to an end. I am so enjoying this book review even though I thought I maybe wasn’t interested. Thank you, Shauna! ❤

[@Polopony]

Yes. One wants to binge on these book reviews like a box set - if only there was that option...!

[@Jeanne90275]

Sarah had a lot of self-induced problems which she shared, ad nauseum, always making her center stage. I know the type...boring, self -centered, selfish, and resistant to change.

[@kimberlyanne434]

Watch the sky raining dead pheasants 😂😂😂that one made me burst out laughing. I bet their bath water was really cold.

[@groovin2mytune285]

Thank you Shauna! I am enjoying this book too.

[@maggierayner9408]

Love your reading and comments. Still hanging in on this poor me, pity party, with Sarah eloquently and manipulatively justifying her continued destructive behaviour and decisions - without maturing and learning from her poor decisions-to this day.

[@julledalle]

Do tell! Her life story even as we speak(message) 🎉

[@sharonozvenom]

Paddy McNally has a net worth of £510 million. Poor Fergie wouldn’t have had financial woes if only she could have convinced Paddy to marry her . 😂😂 💷

[@JFra127]

Sarah sounds like she’d have had no trouble working through the £510 million. IMO Sarah’s spending problems were like an empty pit. No matter what was happening she’s compulsively spend money.

[@sharonozvenom]

@@JFra127you’re right, Paddy would be worth only £150 million with Sarah’s bad spending habits .

[@josephinecrawford9171]

Thanks Shauna … I enjoy all your book reviews… I’m currently reading Lady Cs, The Queen Mother… what a good read. 👌

[@annieb980]

When I was a teen in the 60s and from a working class suburb, I worked as a secretary in an advertising agency in London. The place was full of Sloane rangers whose daddy knew the directors and had found them a little job until they could marry well and go and breed more Carolines and Hugos in the country. It was a real eye opener to me. Especially as I covered for them when they slipped away early on a Friday to go orf to their weekend parties.

[@lisalivingston6473]

I think it is so telling that Sarah wrote her memoir using American colloquialisms. She was obviously pandering to the American market after her divorce from Andrew. She also signed a lucrative contract with Weight Watchers along with the many books she authored for children and adults. She has proven that she can be financially independent while maintaining respect for the royal family apart from that little hiccup when she was caught trying to sell access to her ex-husband - LOL!

[@Polopony]

That was absolutely not a 'little hiccup'. At the time, it was a huge scandal, and it completely sunk her reputation all over again in Britain, it's why she was metaphorically sent to Siberia until this latest rehabilitation. As far as the RF were concerned, it was a massive faux pas.

[@lisalivingston6473]

​@@PoloponyHere in America, Fergie's scandal made news, but it looks like she survived the deep freeze from the royal family with no visible frost bite - LOL!

[@Sandy-wr5jr]

2days each for 8 days -apple cheese chicken salad. The Israeli army diet. It also suggests that the dieter should not exercise as it was so unhealthy. I really love your book series Shawna. thank you!

[@tzok09]

Altgough some are born into priviledge and some not, ultimately we choose what we will nurture in ourselves good or bad. So we must also accept the consequence of those decisions.

[@charmainepriestman915]

Good morning everyone Sarah clearly had very low self-esteem, and it is my opinion that she was doing the best she could under the circumstances

[@Sassie1]

Having dealt with many children of divorce, they seem to have a lot of self identity problems - esp. the girls. Interesting that Di & Fergie as well as MM all came from divorced parents and were raised more by their fathers, & had 'absent' mothers. Though of the 3, Sarah actually seems to have been the most stable!

[@robinsmith3987]

sarah was trying to buy friends with her extravegent gifts

[@melbournegirl7]

I didn’t think I would be interested in Sarah’s tale. But your presentation is so enjoyable Shauna.

[@erinr5585]

I went through a phase of ignoring fines and tickets. I couldn't afford the train ticket to get to uni, but I had to go regardless, so there were many fines... I reckon I still came out ahead, though.

[@elainepaterson5310]

Sarah sounds a bit exhausting to be around. Rather than seeking love, I think she was seeking attention, one of those people who suck all the oxygen out of any room they are in. Putting on my amateur psychiatrist hat on, I guess having your mum abandon you might be responsible for that!

[@jackiegould1569]

Hmm Sarah comes across a bit bit of a rich spoilt brat really, last time she was flinging typewriter through windows and this time flouting the law with parking tickets (unpiad). I didnt realise she came from money and had that type of life at all. Coming from that background she really ought to have known how to behave better. I always like her - but its funny how you can start to go off people. 😂

[@user-vj8it1qk5w]

Shauna, the Israeli Army diet was; apples for two days (must be all the same sort of apples, but didn't have to be Granny Smiths), cheese for two days (same type of cheese, but as much as you want), two days of chicken (but not kfc) Can't remember what the seventh day was, sorry.

[@juliehooker7231]

It was 2 days of Salad after the chicken. I remember it was huge and featured in the Women’s Weekly. I think I did 2 days of apples, and gave up after that.😀

[@user-vj8it1qk5w]

@@juliehooker7231 Thanks for that, but I won't be trying it any time soon; also gave up pretty quickly back in the day. Cheers from over the ditch, Ali

[@janodonnell3818]

Poor step-mother! Entitled Sarah 🙄

[@thevintageread]

I agree!

[@whatsinaname3561]

​@@thevintagereadI'm sorry, but I don't agree. Sarah's mum had left her and what child would not feel rejected and unloved which would lead them to desperately want to fill that void. At 18 she had no life experience and a step mother cannot fill a mother's shoes.... at least not one who spent a significant amount of time with you and then dumped and ran. I also do not believe that she was stuck up like her housekeeper said she was. I bet that was just jealousy because the housekeeper had to do Sarah's bidding instead of having free reign. I really feel we should give Sarah some slack. She has not had a very happy life and right now she is extremely loyal to Andrew and has never slagged off the royals and I bet you she has plenty of stories to tell about them.

[@dianehoag682]

@@whatsinaname3561 I understand your point of view. But we all should - eventually - accept being adults and not be rude/entitled when we really have it easy compared to some others.

[@leithmacdonald4242]

@@whatsinaname3561 I think you are right about the affect her mother not being around had on her. I knew Sarah in the 1990's and you couldn't have met a nicer person. She was very warm, friendly and not the least bit entitled or snobby. Very different from the way the press and some others around her wanted her portrayed as. Everyone has faults and flaws and if you really wanted to highight hers, I would have called her: way to trusting of others, slightly naive, impulsive and searching for approval and love. I rather liked her - even when she later did silly things and got herself in trouble. The only person she ever really hurt was herself.

[@eshiestrik2756]

I don't see it that way. I see a lost little girl in a young adult's body who, in a way, lost her mother at an extremely young age. I know someone who was only 7 when her mother died and I see the same lostness 25 years later. It's so sad because she hasn't developed as emotionally as she would have had her mother lived. As much as her dad was there for her, it just isn't the same. She really missed out on the mother daughter relationship. I feel sad for Sarah and I'm glad her stepmum was there for her, even though it wouldn't have been the same, and it may have been frustrating for Susan.

[@user-sn4bp6rp7m]

Shauna, I have only discovered your Vintage Read Show two weeks ago. I looove it! Your wittiness and warmth makes each show so entertaining. I have been binge watching past shows in bed at night with a cup of Aussie billy tea! 🦘

[@thevintageread]

Love Billy tea! 💕

[@trish2256]

Loving this book. It's so interesting about her life.

[@silvercrowsong]

Delightful was to start the week. Thanks!

[@nazreensalie]

11:25 still doing it Except now it's Royal Lodge

[@gabbyb4493]

I find it hard to take Fergie seriously! She seems like someone who is carefree, careless and irresponsible! I am only listening to this book because it’s you Shauna! Her narrative of continually wanting people to like her is a poor excuse for her poor behaviour!

[@isobeloconnell9385]

Didn't Princess Diana have a Lady in Waiting called Anne Beckwith Smith? Any relation to Carolyn Beckwith Smith? Shauna said Carolyn, Sarah Ferguson's landlady, was also friends with Diana. I know Sarah and Diana had known each other since childhood and their mothers had been friends too.

[@MelissaC1103]

Loved this chapter! Especially the details about the kedgeree….I make this quite often my family love it BUT I don’t add the cream..so I went looking to see how the royals make it. My dad was English so my mum used to make it for us when we were kids so now of course I make it….BUT of course the Royals use smoked haddock…not like us mere mortals who can only get smoked cod 😂 they also poach in milk and add cream! So I now have to try it like the Royals do! Can’t wait to see if it is better than mine!!

[@kimsheldon8517]

You have such a delightful way about you when you read😊

[@user-il1fn9cl5v]

Watch HG Tudor The Sussex Squad Part1 and Part2

[@notbill08]

The Israeli army diet was a silly fad from the 1970's which in fact had *no connection* to Israel or the IDF! Here was the diet: The diet plan was for 8 days where the same food would be eaten for 2 days at a time. Days 1 - 2: Apples Days 3 - 4: Cheese Days 5 - 6: Chicken Days 7 - 8: Salad Love from 🇮🇱

[@thevintageread]

Yes I know it was a silly fad diet! My Older sister did it! 😂 Thanks! X

[@leandabee]

Skyhooks, 'you just like me because I'm good in bed' 🎶🎶😅.

[@amethystfeathers7324]

I was around when Sarah and Diana were Sarah always seemed over hyped and frantic Her energy was too much really, no calm no peace.

[@margaretmckee7710]

That was brilliant

[@ritafairclough6470]

I know her doppelganger

[@PattyfmPhilly]

Thanks, Shauna💙💙

[@thevintageread]

💙

[@queenofdarkdawn14]

I thought that her family had two properties. Plus her mother had a farming in Argentina. One her parents died didn't inherited,? I don't understand how she got in trouble with the money

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

Her father gambled.

[@Celisar1]

I wonder how Sarah could show so much insight and self- awareness of her shortcomings and flaws but never do we see or hear about any attempt to change something. Why didn’t she start a therapy for her self described need to please realizing how much pressure that put her under or how difficult that made it for other people? Self- awareness is applaudable but without the attempt to change something it remains hollow self- congratulatory behavior.

[@Polopony]

I think she is applying the insight retrospectively in this book - she wasn't aware of the reasons why she was behaving that way at the time, I'm sure. But it's a clever tactic, because it enables her to describe behaviours that otherwise would attract a lot of censure, but don't, because she gets out ahead of it with the 'pooor little me, I was just a bouncy goofy loveable puppy widdling on the carpet, really' schtick.

[@Celisar1]

@@Polopony this is not hindsight realization. She knows she is a people pleaser seeking approval and love. That’s quite clear in the book. Her self criticism has two functions: it prevents others from criticizing her and it wants to be applauded.

[@Genna01]

One needs to ask where she gets all her money to buy a house in LONDON ALSO THE LOGE SHE AND ANDREW HAVE IN SWITZERLAND.LETS ASK HER WHY HER FRIEND EPSTEIN WOULD PAY OFF HER DEBTS-ALSO WHY EPSTEIN WOULD BIVE SUCH PRESENTS OF MONEY EVEN TOMHER DAUGHTERS.

[@nazreensalie]

8:49 she still does! Except now she has a global audience, thanks to TV and podcasts 😮😅

[@user-lg2yp8od3z]

The parking tickets as one example, show someone completely lacking in responsibility for their actions. Until the world wide media toe sucking revelation scandal, someone who always did and still does, tend to land on their feet, no matter how poorly they behave. Sorry, I find admiration or respect or even sympathy hard to muster. However, shall keep tuning in to the consummate story teller.

[@cornelia9778]

Sarah lived like many other girls of the time except for the Royal connection. It’s all quite predictable. I don’t hear any juice.

[@LynetteMcGrath]

She sounds exhausting. Avoid at all costs.

[@PS_testing321...]

There is a strudel house in the California mountains? I think she might have been in Switzerland!

[@user-tx6mj7no8e]

She seems delightful and quite fearless to me.

[@SharonSeaver]

Hi Shauna, great read. Thank you so much😊❤

[@philipmilner9638]

Did Sarah's step mother enjoy sorting out Sarah's grey/white underwear like 'the housekeeper ' at Highgrove? I seem to remember 'Lavinder Gardens', was the address of the British film 'The man who never was', a true second war story.

[@colleencarpenter1200]

You're so funny!

[@TraceyBurton-gs6jm]

Five times a day on a landline!

[@thepunpolice11]

Sarah sounds like a nightmare. So needy I would have had no patience for her even in my early 20s.

[@teachersusan3730]

Yep

[@3_times_mum520]

I honestly don't think, Susan was sad, that Sarah was confiding in her .. I have stepchildren of my own.. and it is actually a big win😊 Susan most have seen, this young desperate girl.. just wanted to be loved.. We have to remember, have Old she was at the time.

[@beverleightodd5710]

sounds like the Judith Mazel's the Beverley Hills Diet.

[@Cooksongrl]

Well it seems those who grow up not worrying about $ are always that way. Like her trip around the world they just are relaxed about it always being there & things working out. Also I get Diana was supposed to be Queen but interesting she was expected to be unworldly but Fergie wasn’t

[@Primrose37823]

So Dads married 2 Susans??

[@dianemitchell1161]

Yes, Susan Deptford and Susan Barrantes

[@pamelaberry2668]

Thank you Shauna. I’m thoroughly enjoying this book. But this video went by too quickly. 😞

[@3_times_mum520]

Lisning to Sarah story... It actually makes me sad, to hear a child/ young person, being treated like this... rich or poor.. doesn't matter!!! think about it ... I never met Sarah.. but to me, she sounds like a young girl in desperate need of somebody to love her, just because she was her.. she didn't have that..!!! She sounds like a young girl/ woman.. desperately trying to make sure, that people didn't leave her.. I think it is a personality trait , that was developed because of, people she loved, growing up, as a child, kept on abandoning her ... No one put her need before their own... No one!!!! Not her mother, and not her father.. and she, as most children do.. would have done anything .. just anything to get Love and attention from their parents... She never did!!! The only one taking time to listen and care for her, was her stepmom... .. and what does her father do.. tells her off !! and she is annoying... I think he was jealous, of Sarah getting some of his wife's attention...

[@sc3942]

Was it a banana? (the last part of the Israeli army diet) As an Aussie travelling Europe in the late '70s, living in shared flats in UK during the winter, we ALL tried that diet from time to time.

[@jennifer5130]

Oh God. It just gets worse. Unable to sit through a full episode of Poor Me Sarah. I'll stick to Katie. ♥

[@BarbaraHardacre]

I'm trying to get into both of them but finding it hard going.

[@argosz8046]

Sarah is a very odd mix of a person. First the lack of a "mother" figure when young (and the positives and practicalities of that), combined with the behaviour she thought would give her her father's "male" approval. At times sharp insight into her own motivations combined with "reckless disregard" for the very real consequences of a chaotic lifestyle. Shauna, I remember you reading in Edit: The Housekeeper' Diary her being aghast at Sarah's less than clean, crumpled clothes in her suitcase. Some years later, Sarah herself described her domestic and financial failings as a single mother caring for two small children. Someone was kind enough to add some order by labeling all the girls' clothing with their name and the drawers with what article it held (vests, undies, t-shirts etc). This was so Sarah could both find AND put away the laundry. She seems to have been on the one hand screaming out to be loved, and on the other determined to getaway with as much poor behaviour as possible.

[@janscott7565]

Not Kitty Kelley's book, that was in "The Housekeepers Diary".

[@argosz8046]

@@janscott7565 Whoops, thanks.

[@MellyBooHoo]

❤

[@jeanthomas7171]

Will there be number 6? 🤞🏻I hope so.

[@dutchgram3799]

I thought that Sarah and Andrew knew each other as kids? They played together at gatherings? Maybe that was some other person in another book that you shared with us. (I like to buy the books so I can refer back to them when I cannot remember little things like this.)

[@thevintageread]

Yes I said it! I meant as adults romantically.

[@queeniemorris4060]

GM ❤

[@3_times_mum520]

I have to agree with you Shauna….( Hope you Read this 😊) You really don't like Sarah…do you... But try to, just try to Imagine that you got a child/teenager in your care.. So neglected by every adult in her life… No one ever put sarah's needs before their own.. did they.. I would have done anything to make such a girl feel loved.. Try to imagine, your boys, being treated like that, by you and your husband... Ugg.. no.. you would never!!! Love them too much...❤ Just like me.. I couldn't even imagine, too just leave, or putting myself before my kids growing up...